(n.) A South American animal of the family Mustelidae (Galictis vittata). It is about two feet long, exclusive of the tail. Its under parts are black. Also called South American glutton.
(n.) A South American monkey (Lagothrix infumatus), said to be gluttonous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Through a series of walks with former colleagues and investigations in archives the author succeeded in reconstructing the medical past of the Moesano, a remote region of the italian speaking Grisons comprising the valleys of Calanca and Mesolcina.
(2) Two cases of dioctophymosis in wild little grisons (Galictis cuja) were found in Paraná State (southern Brazil).
(3) This represents the first report of the giant kidney nematode (Dioctophyme renale) in the little grison.
(4) The external gamma radiation and the indoor air Rn (222Rn) concentration were measured in 55 houses of the South East Grisons, the Urseren valley, and the Upper Rhine valley (crystalline subsoils) and in 39 houses of the Molasse basin and the Helvetic nappes (sedimentary subsoils).
(5) Domestic dogs and cats, 3 fox species, Dusicyon culpaeus (Molina,1782), D, griseus (Gray, 1837) and D. gymnocercus (Thomas, 1914), Geoffroy's cats, Felis geoffroyi (D'Orbigny and Gervais, 1843), and grisons, Galictus cuja (Molina, 1782) were fed larvae of Echinococcus granulosus (Batsch, 1786) from domestic sheep in Argentina.
(6) The fixation of the C*PB allele in the Walser of the Safiental (The Grisons) can be explained under the assumption of founder effect or of genetic drift.
(7) The following cantons have joined in the above-mentioned convention: Zurich, Glaris, Schaffhouse, both Appenzells, St-Gall, Thurgovie and the Grisons.
(8) Jachiam Elias Frizzun (1657-1714), a barber-surgeon who practised in his native mountain village of Celerina (Grisons, Switzerland) from 1693 to 1713, has left a case-book written in Rhaeto-Romanic and covering the whole period of his professional activity.
(9) The way of life of the elderly people in a Swiss mountain valley (Schanfigg, Grisons) is statistically examined and illustrated by detailed descriptions.
(10) The Walsers of the Grisons (Switzerland) present a good example of these inter-related population-genetic phenomena: migration was the major determinant of the relatedness of the gene pool in all Walser populations.
(11) In 1978 the canton of the Grisons has marked a new prescription concerning imprisonment which takes into account all the requirements of the European convention on Human Rights and the Swiss Penal Code.
(12) The prison of Realta, in the canton of the Grisons, allows special imprisonment (art.